We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

New research reveals that hydrothermal vents provided early Earth with abundant nitrogen, challenging previous theories.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on the International Space Station more than nine months, despite ...

A study of ancient stromatolites reveals that ammonium reservoirs in early Earth's oceans, likely influenced by volcanic ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth." Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

We'll be coming home, riding the plasma, splashing in the ocean, so that's what we're looking forward to,’ a 62-year-old ...